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Restaurant Loyalty Programs to Boost Revenues

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From their humble, though ingenious, beginnings as copper tokens and stamps, through the era of credit card clubs, to today’s mobile apps, loyalty programs have become indispensable marketing tools. million members, all driven through their mobile app. But no one forgets their mobile phone. They have roughly 14.2

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Technology Trends for the ‘New Normal’ Customer Cravings

Modern Restaurant Management

Capitalizing on this craving for convenience, fast food options and food delivery startups are growing rapidly, evidenced by the fact that fast food growth swiftly outpaced that of bars and restaurants by a whopping nearly 7:1 margin between 2017 and 2019. Table Tech : Pay-at-the-Table is the new Lazy Susan of the wait-staff world.

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Four Ways QSRs MUST Innovate to Outlast the Pandemic

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We’ve seen entire states reopen and re-close in short order due to spikes in cases. This has never been more true for ordering and procuring food, be it in the restaurant, grabbing takeout, or getting a meal delivered. Even back in 2017, Domino’s was seeing 90% of its orders being placed through its app or online.

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How State and County Fairs Are Becoming Tech Savvy

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If you are planning to attend a fair as a vendor, it is important to have a mobile POS that will support you. Fairs are offering payment solutions to customers to allow card payments and mobile wallets, and your foodservice business needs to keep with the times in order to process payments for customers. Showcased rides.

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The Evolution of Restaurant Technology: What’s Next?

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We started doing to-go orders but that was still through your POS. BD : Another thing that has really sparked the evolution of restaurant technologies- and I’m certainly not the first person to say this- is the mobile device. Around 2017-2018 machine learning made breakthroughs that allowed it to be much more implementable.

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Why is coffee delivery so popular in China?

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Many people use mobile apps to order and pay for products, including coffee, almost every day. However, these services became much more widespread when Chinese chain Luckin Coffee launched its delivery service in 2017. Despite opening its first stores in 2017, Luckin currently operates more locations in China than Starbucks.

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Take a Byte Out of This: Emerging Restaurant Technology

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Other restaurants — especially in fast food — adopted mobile payments. Customers can order food and pay through an app or online service. With VR, everything is done digitally, so trainees don’t touch or interact with actual food orders or other items. Here are four examples. IoT and Bluetooth Sensors.

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